Woman and Chinese Modernity

Rey Chow grew up in Hong Kong and received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, where she is affiliated with the Departments of East Asian Studies and Women’s Studies. She has contributed articles to Cultural Critique, New German Critique, Radical America, Modern Chinese Literature, Dialectical Anthropology, Discourse, Camera Obscura, and Differences.

• Seeing modern China - toward a theory of ethnic spectatorship; mandarin ducks and butterflies - an exercise in popular readings; modernity and narration - in feminine detail; loving women - masochism, fantasy, and the idealization of the mother.